Category: Брой 3

Alla Georgieva: Museum of the Couch Wars. Ours!

Passions and Complexes Between the Couch and the Screen article: Maria Vassileva In September 2015, the Sofia City Art Gallery opened the first retrospective of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Bulgaria. It sparked strong emotions—ranging from absolute admiration to total rejection. In fact, the rejection was not directed at the works themselves but at the figure…

New boundaries in the space of the museum

FORTRESS – FESTUNG exhibition in the space of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art   article: Lilyana Karadjova   What are the fortresses of the modern world and how do we penetrate their matter and significance? This pressing question which has taken on a new and specifically European meaning was raised in the…

“New life” by Alexander Valchev

Alexander Valchev New Life, 2016 Goethe Institute, Sofia 10 December 2015 – 30 January 2016   When I was invited to hold an exhibition at the Goethe Institute, I started reflecting on a principle I have always believed in—that an exhibition should be connected in some way to the place where it is presented. In…

Reflections (2015), photo series of Yoana Emilova Angelova

Reflected Observation article: Maria Wasilewska For the master’s degree graduation exhibition of photography students at the National Academy of Arts, Yoana Angelova presents a series of photographs under the evocative title Reflections. This series once again demonstrates the younger generation’s interest in formal experimentation as a medium that revitalizes the modernist idea of “newness.” The…